{"id":2170,"date":"2023-07-12T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.villages.com.au\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2023-07-12T22:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:59:59","slug":"one-in-six-people-in-australia-is-now-aged-65-and-over-and-that-number-is-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.villages.com.au\/retirement\/one-in-six-people-in-australia-is-now-aged-65-and-over-and-that-number-is-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"One in six people in Australia is now aged 65 and over and that number is on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2170\" class=\"elementor elementor-2170\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6ed5dd4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6ed5dd4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d4b49d\" data-id=\"3d4b49d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d113444 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d113444\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>A<strong>ustralia\u2019s population is ageing due to increasing life expectancy and declining fertility rates, which will put further pressure on retirement living and land lease operators to develop more age-appropriate accommodation.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong><em>Recent data, compiled by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), shows that:<\/em><\/strong><\/p><ul><li>At 30 June 2020, there were an estimated 4.2 million older Australians (aged 65 and over) with older people comprising 16% of the total Australian population.<\/li><li>The number of older Australians has increased from 1.0 million (8.3% of the total population) in 1970 and 2.1 million (12%) in 1995.<\/li><li>The number and percentage of older Australians is expected to continue to grow. By 2066, it is projected that older people in Australia will make up between 21% and 23% of the total population.<\/li><li>For those aged 85 and over, the proportion has increased from 0.5% in 1970, to 1.1% in 1995, to 2.1% at 30 June 2020. The proportion is expected to continue to rise to between 3.6% and 4.4% in 2066.<\/li><\/ul><p>With a shortage of available options, it means that is important to plan ahead for your retirement and consider where you may want to live when you retire.<\/p><p><strong>Whether it\u2019s a retirement village, land lease community or an apartment with additional services, doing your research now will save you and your family time and stress later on.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s population is ageing due to increasing life expectancy and declining fertility rates, which will put further pressure on retirement living and land lease operators to develop more age-appropriate accommodation. Recent data, compiled by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), shows that: At&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,70],"tags":[101,83],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-retirement","tag-health","tag-retirement-villages"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.villages.com.au/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}